Data Engineer Jobs in West Yorkshire

Data Engineer
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The median Data Engineer salary in West Yorkshire is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 108 143
Rank change year-on-year +33 +35 +15
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 38 51 84
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 2.78% 1.66% 1.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.11% 1.73% 1.85%
Number of salaries quoted 38 41 56
10th Percentile £47,000 £35,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £51,000 £68,823
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -25.90% +10.12%
75th Percentile £74,063 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £92,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £51,000 £67,071
% change year-on-year +17.65% -23.96% +7.31%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in West Yorkshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in West Yorkshire with a recognized job title 1,221 2,954 4,542
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.32% 96.32% 92.96%
Number of salaries quoted 623 2,163 2,262
10th Percentile £27,750 £28,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% +9.62%
75th Percentile £76,545 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,522 £82,548 £86,250
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,683 £49,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -2.69% -7.55% +6.00%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Job postings that featured Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in West Yorkshire

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in West Yorkshire.

Salary trend for Data Engineer in West Yorkshire

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in West Yorkshire

Data Engineer
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineer within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 29 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Leeds +49 35 £60,000 +17.65% 22
Data Engineer
Yorkshire

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 29 May 2025, Data Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the West Yorkshire region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 26 (68.42%) SQL
2 25 (65.79%) Data Pipeline
3 22 (57.89%) ETL
3 22 (57.89%) Azure
4 21 (55.26%) Data Warehouse
4 21 (55.26%) Social Skills
4 21 (55.26%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
5 19 (50.00%) Python
5 19 (50.00%) AWS
5 19 (50.00%) Analytics
6 18 (47.37%) Data Engineering
7 15 (39.47%) Data Security
8 14 (36.84%) Azure Data Factory
9 13 (34.21%) Data Strategy
9 13 (34.21%) Data Modelling
10 12 (31.58%) Microsoft
10 12 (31.58%) Databricks
11 11 (28.95%) Serverless
11 11 (28.95%) Apache Spark
11 11 (28.95%) Data Quality
11 11 (28.95%) Data Architecture
12 10 (26.32%) Data Lake
13 9 (23.68%) Mentoring
13 9 (23.68%) Power Platform
14 8 (21.05%) Public Sector
14 8 (21.05%) Amazon Redshift
14 8 (21.05%) Power BI
14 8 (21.05%) Data Science
14 8 (21.05%) Data Extraction

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (28.95%) Apache Spark
2 7 (18.42%) Apache
3 1 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 22 (57.89%) Azure
2 19 (50.00%) AWS
3 14 (36.84%) Azure Data Factory
4 11 (28.95%) Serverless
5 9 (23.68%) Power Platform
6 8 (21.05%) Amazon S3
7 7 (18.42%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (13.16%) GCP
8 5 (13.16%) Power Automate
9 4 (10.53%) Azure Functions
9 4 (10.53%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (7.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (7.89%) dbt
10 3 (7.89%) Entra ID
10 3 (7.89%) Snowflake
11 1 (2.63%) Azure Storage
11 1 (2.63%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (55.26%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (26.32%) Data Lake
3 8 (21.05%) Amazon Redshift
3 8 (21.05%) Power BI
3 8 (21.05%) SQL Server
4 5 (13.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (10.53%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 4 (10.53%) MongoDB
5 4 (10.53%) MySQL
5 4 (10.53%) Relational Database
5 4 (10.53%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 4 (10.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (7.89%) Star Schema
7 2 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (2.63%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (2.63%) BigQuery
8 1 (2.63%) Looker
8 1 (2.63%) Oracle Database
8 1 (2.63%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (2.63%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (10.53%) Git
2 2 (5.26%) JIRA
3 1 (2.63%) Visual Studio
General
1 21 (55.26%) Social Skills
2 8 (21.05%) Public Sector
3 7 (18.42%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.26%) Tech for Good
5 1 (2.63%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.53%) REST
2 1 (2.63%) Kafka
2 1 (2.63%) Node.js
2 1 (2.63%) PyTorch
2 1 (2.63%) TensorFlow
2 1 (2.63%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.63%) Algorithms
1 1 (2.63%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (65.79%) Data Pipeline
2 22 (57.89%) ETL
3 21 (55.26%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (50.00%) Analytics
4 19 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
5 18 (47.37%) Data Engineering
6 15 (39.47%) Data Security
7 13 (34.21%) Data Modelling
7 13 (34.21%) Data Strategy
8 11 (28.95%) Data Architecture
9 9 (23.68%) Mentoring
10 8 (21.05%) Data Extraction
10 8 (21.05%) Data Science
11 7 (18.42%) Agile
11 7 (18.42%) Data Migration
11 7 (18.42%) Migration
12 5 (13.16%) CI/CD
12 5 (13.16%) Decision-Making
12 5 (13.16%) Machine Learning
13 4 (10.53%) Data-Driven Decision Making
Programming Languages
1 26 (68.42%) SQL
2 19 (50.00%) Python
3 6 (15.79%) R
4 4 (10.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (10.53%) Scala
4 4 (10.53%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (10.53%) Degree
2 2 (5.26%) SC Cleared
2 2 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (28.95%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (5.26%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 12 (31.58%) Databricks
1 12 (31.58%) Microsoft
2 5 (13.16%) Oracle
3 4 (10.53%) Palantir
4 1 (2.63%) HubSpot